Maya Angelou Quotes
I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever.
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My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that as well. At the same time, I love work and I want to be busy all the time!
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.
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Then you figure out that if you don't throw it as hard as you can, you can put it where you want. It's more important where you put it.
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Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life.
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The ogres and witches and giants of fairytales stand in as metaphors for those obstacles that we all face in our own lives.
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Words are everything and don't you forget it, ever.
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I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever.
